Aaron Samuels

Co-Founder & COO of Blavity

Aisha Fukushima

Performance Lecturer, Justice Strategist, Facilitator, Vocalist & Founder of RAPtivism

Intersectionality matters: Aisha Fukushima at TEDxWhitmanCollege

Aku Kadogo

Theater Director, Choreographer, Educator & Cultural Arts Preservationist

Alyesha Wise

Writer, Poet & Educator; Co-Founder of Spoken Literature Art Movement

Amal Kassir

Syrian-American Muslim Storytelling Activist & Poet

Amanda Gorman

Inaugural Youth Poet Laureate of the U.S.

Amena Brown

Spoken Word Poet, Performing Artist & Author

Amir Sulaiman

Poet, Recording Artist, Actor, Screenwriter and Producer

Andrea Gibson

Poet & Activist

The Madness Vase

Anne Carson

Award-Winning Canadian Poet, Essayist and Professor, MacArthur Fellowship Award Winner, Lannan Literary Award Winner

Apiorkor Seyiram Ashong-Abbey

Ghanaian Poet, Author, Literary Critic, Media Practitioner & Activist

Arielle Estoria

Actor, Poet, & Author of "The Unfolding"

Arielle Estoria Speaker Reel

Bonafide Rojas

Bonafide Rojas is the author of “Renovatio, When The City Sleeps & Pelo Bueno” & is the founder of Grand Concourse Press.

Brandon Leake

Award-Winning Spoken Word Poet & Artistic Educator

Bruce Degen

Bestselling Author and Illustrator of "Jamberry"

Charity Blackwell

Diversity Equity and Inclusion Practitioner, Spoken Word Artist & Host/Emcee

Chika Stacy Oriuwa

Spoken Word Poet, Physician & Advocate

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Renowned African Novelist & Speaker

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Mestiza poet, Jungian psychoanalyst, Post-Trauma Recovery Specialist, Author & Spoken word artist.

Cometry

Comedy + Performance Poetry; Using Art to Unpack Tough Topics: Diversity, Mental Health, Leadership & Empathy Training

David Bianchi

Founder of Exertion Films, Self-Propelled Entrepreneur, Producer & Actor

David Whyte

Poet, Author, Naturalist & Organizational Thinker

Deborah Levy

British Playwright, Novelist & Poet

Deneka Thomas

Program Manager of Girl Be Heard Trinidad & Tobago; Advocate for Equality & Human Rights

Denice Frohman

Award-Winning Poet, Educator & Activist

Diamond Stingily

Artist Focused on Racial and Feminine Identities

Donna Tartt

Pulitzer Prize Award-Winning Author of "The Secret History," "The Little Friend" & "The Goldfinch"

Emi Mahmoud

Poet, Social Activist & UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador

Gabriela Garcia

Author of "Of Women and Salt"

Gabriela Garcia Medina

Poet and Film director